Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, MS J.H. Art. 88

Album of Franz Joachim Brechtel Facsimile Edition

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Created in Nuremberg in 1573, the Album of Franz Joachim Brechtel contains twenty-two examples of ornate calligraphy, most introduced by a large openwork initial with cadelles. The book's scribe was a skilled writing master, mathematician, and musical composer. The album, which displays the scribe's mastery of Gothic and humanistic scripts, is a fascinating example of sixteenth-century penwork, marked by complex interlacing and scrollwork. The palette is often restricted to black ink with gold used for scrollwork and headings.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Album of Franz Joachim Brechtel": Das Schreibmesiterbuch des Franz Joachim Brechtel facsimile edition, published by Quaternio Verlag Luzern, 2016

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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Das Schreibmesiterbuch des Franz Joachim Brechtel

Lucerne: Quaternio Verlag Luzern, 2016

  • Commentary (German) by Sauer, Christine
  • Limited Edition: not limited
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Album of Franz Joachim Brechtel: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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